![]() Due to its size, it seems to impede the movement of my Rider’s hand. ![]() But the ring also doesn’t make sense logistically. Despite the fact that a bracelet is actually a remarkably neutral adornment, they felt the necessity to switch it to a ring (including switching dialogue about it). In a sense, it’s just trading one piece of jewelry (a bracelet) for another (a ring). ![]() In X/Y and Sun/Moon, everyone gets bracelets for their Mega Stones and Z Stones). In that article, Sam discovered that the universe has girls assert that they are the same as boys, while simultaneously allowing for boys to wear watches, but girls are doomed to wear their Yo-kai as a pendant on their necks, “because….jewelry.” (Strangely– or interestingly– enough, fearing for the safety of girl’s wrists is not something that plagues the Pokemon series. Last year, Sam wrote about a similar scenario occurring in Yo-kai Watch, or, as we all now lovingly call it, Yo-kai Pendant. This may sound familiar, and indeed, it should. I started laughing so hard I had to stop for a little bit. And, sure enough, that was what my character ended the cut-scene wearing: A ring that basically covered her whole hand. They weren’t talking about a bracelet to my character. So I wasn’t really paying attention to my play-through, until I noticed that the dialogue was a bit different. He got his Kinship Stone, set into a gaudy but usable bracelet, and went about his trial. See, I’d already seen the Rite for the male character. I put the thought into the pile of things that would nag at me while I played (as well as be the source of many jokes to come), and continued on to the Rite of Kinship.Īnd that’s when my disappointment grew. After all, Monster Hunter has always had a problem with the “sexy armor” for ladies, even when the corresponding male armor set is almost a walking wall of metal. ![]() Even if you go into armor customization to change the colors, you can’t remove the pink border from the girl’s outfit (though you can turn the whole boy’s outfit pink if you want.)ĭisappointed, but unfortunately, not surprised, I resigned myself to the fact that the clothing imbalance was going to continue. Apparently being a boy means horned hoods with capes and pants, while being a girl is a lifetime of cat-ear hats, leggings with thigh-high boots, and pom-poms. It’s almost everything, down to the colors. Though, maybe if I’d been paying attention to the townsfolk, I’d have had more inkling of what was about to happen. Because gone was the seemingly equal outfit design and back was the different clothing based on gender. And that’s the first true time you get to see the character you’ll be playing the rest of the game.Īnd that, dear reader, was the first time my hopes were dashed. Even after character creation, your outfit doesn’t change depending on which of the two gender options you pick (I didn’t get my hope up that much, though maybe one day we’ll have a neutral option in a MH game). And things unfold in typical MH fashion (Repeat after me: That escalated quickly), and time passes and then the game really begins. At the very beginning, your character looks incredibly neutral. Now, I have to say, I was incredibly disappointed, because this game got my hopes up. Unfortunately, though, this game manifests some of my least favorite aspects of the Monster Hunter series: it still unnecessarily genders things. I’ve only played for about 10 hours, and most of the was spent riding around and exploring and not advancing the plot, but it already feels expansive. Plus, any game that lets me tame a bunch of monsters (called ‘Monsties’ in this game) to make a rather adorable, cuddly, world-crushing zoo is my sort of game. It combines my favorite parts of the Monster Hunter series with fun aspects of Pokemon, and is remarkably low stress. I originally thought that it was just the kind of a game that could tide you over until Monster Hunter World comes out in January, but man, this game is fun! I don’t think I’ve had this much fun playing a game in a long time. I recently started playing Monster Hunter Stories on the 3DS.
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